The best place to encounter plants and animals that can only be found in New Caledonia.

The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.

Australian museum dedicated to human health and lack thereof.

Dilapidated ruins that once treated a notorious young serial killer, currently hosting vandals, squatters, and ghost hunters.

A historical umbrella shop, whose owner started a craze for locally-made souvenirs.

Designed to provide fantastic views of the surrounding rainforest.

The evolution of a simple creek cutting its way through an ochre mountain side.

This gold mine–turned–swimming hole is the perfect summer picnic spot, immersed in nature and history.

A unique rock formation that only a few have managed to venture inside.

Entrance to a famous orchard with nine types of apples.

Created as a coal reserve, it is today a natural park with stunning wildflowers, ancient marine fossils, and remnants of a 19th century mine.

The Gunditjmara Aboriginal people of Australia began construction on this vast aquacultural complex 6,600 years ago.

Victoria's largest salt lake is a favorite haunt for photographers and stargazers.

Many rock climbers have come to conquer this slender sea stack, with various degrees of success.

These flying foxes dangle from the trees around the library like fuzzy black fruit.

The longest manmade tunnel in Queensland is now a beautiful trail, home to a special colony of bent-wing bats.

Home of the world's largest crocodile.

The largest wax museum in the southern hemisphere features a grizzly chamber of horrors.

Dedicated to an "Unknown Man," this grave holds either the remains of a lovelorn suicide or a Cold War spy.

An indigenous ethnobotanist runs this brunch spot celebrating Australia’s native flavors.

The once-dying town of Sheffield, Tasmania has reinvented itself as a village of painted wonders.

A granite waterfall cascading down is one of the highest multi-tiered falls in the state.

The Australian lorikeets that like to tie one on in an annual drinking binge.

A boardwalk winds through this sliver of coastal nature hidden within Sydney.